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20 Cards in this Set
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TRENCH WARFARE
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Muddy, hard to keep warm, couldn't bathe or change clothes for days/weeks, lice,rats trenches gave shelter from rifle/achine gun fire but not shell fire
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"GO OVER THE TOP"
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to get out of trenches and go over and attack the enemy in a mass charge (suicidal move)
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NO MAN'S LAND
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are between opposing trenches (otfen torn up and bombed out)
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STALEMATE
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when nither side can win or advance (often the case in the trenches)
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POISON GAS
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Germany has 1st, used in 1915, yellowish/greenish could be shot in shells or released in canisters, could choke, blind, burn the skin
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GAS MASK
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a defense against poison gas
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DREADNOUGHT
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Britain has 1st - large heavily armored battleship, weighed 25,000 tons, speed 25 knots, could sheet 1 ton shell 20 miles
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U - BOATS
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German submarine, named with #'s
The one that sank the LUSITANIA was the U-20 |
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DOGFIGHT
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Fight between airplanes WWI
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ZEPPELIN
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airshop known as "BLIMP" dropped bombs, could be blown away in heavy winds 450 ft king for dropping bombs
named after the creater |
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MACHINE GN ON AIRPLANE
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new weapons, machine guns fitted on the front of the plane
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ACE
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pilot shots down an enemy plane; some countres you might have had to shoot down a certain # to be called an ACE
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RED BARON
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German ACE Pilot
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RED BARON
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Manfred Von Richthofen
Most successful ace in war downed 80 plans |
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EDDIE V. RICKENBACKER
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U.S. most successful ACE
26 killed |
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MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN
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German Ace Pilot
80 downed plans |
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HOWITZER
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big field gun
killed more men than any other weapon WWI |
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TANK
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a land battleshop
tank was code name could go over barbed wire and trenches (Britain had 1st). ran on treads |
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FLAME THROWER
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Throwing balls of fire
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WESTERN FRONT
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front that Belgium and France were on, front is an area where the fighting takes place
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